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Pagina 9
The pictures of Le Brun are not only in themselves sufficiently ostentatious , but
were explained by inscrip . tions so arrogant , that Boileau and Racine thought it
necessary to make them more simple . He was in the following year at Loo with ...
The pictures of Le Brun are not only in themselves sufficiently ostentatious , but
were explained by inscrip . tions so arrogant , that Boileau and Racine thought it
necessary to make them more simple . He was in the following year at Loo with ...
Pagina 23
Scarcely any one of our poets has written so much and translated so little : the
version of Callimachus is sufficiently licentious ; the paraphrase on St. Paul's
Exhortation to Charity is eminently beautiful . “ Alma ” is written in professed
imitation of ...
Scarcely any one of our poets has written so much and translated so little : the
version of Callimachus is sufficiently licentious ; the paraphrase on St. Paul's
Exhortation to Charity is eminently beautiful . “ Alma ” is written in professed
imitation of ...
Pagina 25
The tediousness of this poem proceeds not from the uniformity of the subject , for
it is sufficiently diversified , but from the continued tenor of the narration ; in which
Solomon relates the successive vicissitudes of his own mind without the ...
The tediousness of this poem proceeds not from the uniformity of the subject , for
it is sufficiently diversified , but from the continued tenor of the narration ; in which
Solomon relates the successive vicissitudes of his own mind without the ...
Pagina 26
If this part of his character suffers an abatement , it must be from the disproportion
of his rhymes , which have not always sufficient consonance , and from the
admission of broken lines into his “ Solomon ; ' but perhaps he thought , like
Cowley ...
If this part of his character suffers an abatement , it must be from the disproportion
of his rhymes , which have not always sufficient consonance , and from the
admission of broken lines into his “ Solomon ; ' but perhaps he thought , like
Cowley ...
Pagina 33
ander the direction of Betterton , the tragedian , where he exhibited two years
afterwards ( 1687 ) The Mourning Bride , a tragedy , so written as to show him
sufficiently qualified for either kind of dramatic poetry . In this play , of which ,
when he ...
ander the direction of Betterton , the tragedian , where he exhibited two years
afterwards ( 1687 ) The Mourning Bride , a tragedy , so written as to show him
sufficiently qualified for either kind of dramatic poetry . In this play , of which ,
when he ...
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